Investigations

Vioxx, rofecoxib (legacy page)

Brian Deer: Vioxx – a killer painkiller NOTE: This legacy page relates to material published at an earlier build of the briandeer.com website, and now serves purely gateway purposes This page indexes resources from a […]

Henry Wellcome
Features

Memo on Henry Wellcome

This page is material from a 1990s investigation and campaign in The Sunday Times of London over the risks of an antibiotic with many names, such as Septra, Septrin, Bactrim, Sulfatrim, and co-trimoxazole Memo by […]

Vioxx, rofecoxib
Investigations

Brian Deer on Vioxx deaths in UK

Reprint Withdrawn painkiller linked to hundreds of deaths The Sunday Times, February 13 2005 Brian Deer DOCTORS have reported 103 deaths they suspect were due to the painkiller Vioxx, which was withdrawn from sale over […]

Vioxx, rofecoxib
Investigations

UK deaths from Vioxx painkiller

Reprint Vioxx death toll may hit 2,000 in UK The Sunday Times, August 21 2005 Brian Deer THE families of as many as 2,000 British patients who died after using the painkiller Vioxx could join […]

AidsVax VaxGen
Investigations

Federal prosecution of ex-CDC staffer at VaxGen

Documents obtained in 1999 by Brian Deer during his Sunday Times investigation of AidVax, the supposed “world’s first Aids vaccine”, from the California company, VaxGen Inc, resulted in federal prosection of Dr William Heyward, who […]

AidsVax VaxGen
Investigations

VaxGen job was fixed for CDC vaccine chief

Scandal of job deal for CDC official Documents passed to Brian Deer during his 1999 Sunday Times investigation of the so-called “world’s first Aids vaccine” involving California company, VaxGen Inc, resulted in federal prosection of […]

Investigations

Deer’s Dispatches on TGN1412 disaster

Channel 4 Television: Dispatches Thursday 28 September 2006, 9-10 pm The drug trial that went wrong Award-winning journalist Brian Deer investigates the circumstances surrounding the infamous drug trial conducted at a private unit in London’s […]

AidsVax VaxGen
Investigations

VaxGen’s AidsVax fiasco

History of medicine “AidsVax: The world’s first AIDS vaccine” This page archives materials gathered by Brian Deer from his investigation for The Sunday Times of London into VaxGen Inc of California, and its “world’s first […]

Investigations

The TGN1412 disaster

Reprint TGN1412 victims given drug ‘too quickly’ The Sunday Times September 24 2006 Brian Deer A “RECKLESS” mistake apparently overlooked by government regulators lay behind the drug trial disaster that saw six young volunteers badly […]